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  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,529 Views
20 Pages

22 September 2023

The conventional approach to urban planning has predominantly focused on horizontal dimensions, disregarding the potential risks originating from outer space. This paper aims to initiate a discourse on the vertical dimension of cities, which is influ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
5,958 Views
22 Pages

Tackling the “New Normal”: A Resilience Assessment Method Applied to Real-World Urban Water Systems

  • Dionysios Nikolopoulos,
  • Henk-Jan van Alphen,
  • Dirk Vries,
  • Luc Palmen,
  • Stef Koop,
  • Peter van Thienen,
  • Gertjan Medema and
  • Christos Makropoulos

15 February 2019

The water sector is, currently and for the foreseeable future, challenged by rising levels of uncertainty in demand and availability of water, in a context of aging infrastructure and limited investment. In order to support strategic planning, water...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,337 Views
28 Pages

23 July 2025

The subject of this research is the original project concept of the life-centered city, which focuses on the planning and design of sustainable solutions for urban landscape transformation. This concept prioritizes the well-being and needs of all lif...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,668 Views
17 Pages

1 April 2024

Contemporary cities are facing many challenges, from social and economic issues to the new risks related to the impacts of climate change. Focusing on energy consumptions, and the related GHG emissions, cities are considered not only the main global...

  • Article
  • Open Access
89 Citations
22,971 Views
21 Pages

8 March 2021

How are our cities using nature-based solutions to confront the challenges posed by a warming climate, the loss of biodiversity and major resource depletion? This article discusses the opportunities and benefits of applying the concepts of regreening...

  • Article
  • Open Access
56 Citations
8,259 Views
26 Pages

23 July 2020

During the last decade, the concept of urban resilience has been increasingly implemented in urban planning, with the main aim to design urban development strategies. Urban resilience is a multi-dimensional and dynamic concept. When applied to urban...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,294 Views
17 Pages

Stress-Testing Framework for Urban Water Systems: A Source to Tap Approach for Stochastic Resilience Assessment

  • Dionysios Nikolopoulos,
  • Panagiotis Kossieris,
  • Ioannis Tsoukalas and
  • Christos Makropoulos

7 January 2022

Optimizing the design and operation of an Urban Water System (UWS) faces significant challenges over its lifespan to account for the uncertainties of important stressors that arise from population growth rates, climate change factors, or shifting dem...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,004 Views
18 Pages

Urban Planning with Rational Green Infrastructure Placement Using a Critical Area Detection Method

  • Herath Mudiyanselage Malhamige Sonali Dinesha Herath,
  • Takeshi Fujino and
  • Mudalige Don Hiranya Jayasanka Senavirathna

5 July 2024

In an era of intense urban development and climate extremes, green infrastructure (GI) has become crucial for creating sustainable, livable, and resilient cities. However, the efficacy of GI is frequently undermined by haphazard implementation and re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
9,489 Views
34 Pages

2 November 2022

Since complex urban systems are a combination of different spatial typologies and may have various complex characteristics (human, environmental, social, economic, political, and cultural), decision-making cannot be done without a holistic approach a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
78 Citations
10,128 Views
18 Pages

Making Less Vulnerable Cities: Resilience as a New Paradigm of Smart Planning

  • Francesca Moraci,
  • Maurizio Francesco Errigo,
  • Celestina Fazia,
  • Gianluca Burgio and
  • Sante Foresta

9 March 2018

Previous studies have investigated how resilience can play a pivotal role in strategic urban design in the Netherlands and in some regional and municipal planning laws in Italy. Here, we have analysed several European projects that utilised the resil...

  • Article
  • Open Access
726 Views
27 Pages

30 August 2025

The Chengdu–Chongqing Economic Mega Region (CCEMR), as a strategic economic hub in Western China, is increasingly facing challenges in balancing urban growth, agricultural stability, and ecological conservation within its territorial spatial pl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
7,786 Views
64 Pages

RAF Resilience Assessment Framework—A Tool to Support Cities’ Action Planning

  • Maria Adriana Cardoso,
  • Rita Salgado Brito,
  • Cristina Pereira,
  • Andoni Gonzalez,
  • John Stevens and
  • Maria João Telhado

17 March 2020

Urban areas are dynamic, facing evolving hazards, having interacting strategic services and assets. Their management involves multiple stakeholders bringing additional complexity. Potential impacts of climate dynamics may aggravate current conditions...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,531 Views
22 Pages

13 December 2024

This study explores the integration of smart city and resilience strategies in Sydney, focusing on the relationship between technological advancements and urban resilience. By analysing strategic documents and key projects—specifically the NSW...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,094 Views
22 Pages

11 November 2021

Building resilience is a core element of urban resilience that refers to both the (1) intended physical change of the building stock and the related blue, green, and grey infrastructure, as well as (2) the social process of increasing resilience thro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,264 Views
22 Pages

As the key link and spatial form of urbanization in China, metropolitan region development has become a strategic frontier issue in the field of regional planning and territorial resilience. This paper defines the essence of territorial resilience of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,812 Views
28 Pages

Urban community gardens are spaces where human well-being is improved by generating ecosystem services locally, and the interactions between humans and the environment increase the resilience of social–ecological systems. Their advantages local...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
7,121 Views
19 Pages

12 October 2020

The aim of the paper was to present the procedure of building neighborhood resilience to climate threats, embedded in planning (from the strategic to local level) and design process and focused on usage of natural adaptive potential. The presented ap...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,227 Views
16 Pages

11 February 2021

The present paper aims to open the discussion on the adoption of a simplified, flexible, and harmonized strategic framework for city development in Romania. Besides a development strategy associated with general urban planning, multiple strategies ar...

  • Commentary
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,985 Views
18 Pages

Going toward Resilience? Town Planning, Peri-Urban Landscapes, and the Expansion of Athens, Greece

  • Samaneh Sadat Nickayin,
  • Antonio Tomao,
  • Giovanni Quaranta,
  • Luca Salvati and
  • Antonio Gimenez Morera

15 December 2020

The long-term expansion and the evolution of town planning of a contemporary European metropolis (Athens, Greece) has been analysed in this study in order to evaluate how sustainable urban growth has been taken into account in sequential strategic ma...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,052 Views
22 Pages

2 March 2022

Future cities will need to plan and design urban green spaces and woodlands to meet diverse interests and needs, provide ecosystem services required by an evolving urban society and improve continuity between urban and rural spaces. This future plann...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
6,711 Views
27 Pages

7 January 2022

Cities are open to trialing new approaches for advancing their planning and urban governance practice. Evidence from urban research and practice shows that transition management has been widely and diversely applied for strategic planning for climate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,440 Views
20 Pages

Resilient Urban-Design Strategies for Landslide Risk Mitigation in Huaraz, Peru

  • Doris Esenarro,
  • John Manosalva,
  • Lizeth Sanchez,
  • Carlos Vargas,
  • Vanessa Raymundo and
  • Jimena Ccalla

The present research aims to propose resilient urban-design strategies to mitigate the risk of landslides in Huaraz. This study addresses the growing challenge of climate change and its influence on the occurrence of avalanches in Huaraz, Peru. The m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,821 Views
15 Pages

Enhancing Urban Resilience: Opportunities and Challenges in Adapting to Natural Disasters in Indonesian Cities

  • Mirza Fuady,
  • Buraida,
  • M. Andrian Kevin,
  • M. Rafi Farrel and
  • Allya Triaputri

16 February 2025

This study identifies the key challenges and opportunities for enhancing urban resilience in Indonesia, focusing on the implementation of green city concepts as a strategic solution to improve urban sustainability. Case studies of Banda Aceh, Jakarta...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,667 Views
26 Pages

A GIS-Based Multi-Tier Framework for Assessing the Ecological Potential of Urban Vacant Land

  • Izyan Ayuni Mohamad Selamat,
  • Sreetheran Maruthaveeran,
  • Mohd Johari Mohd Yusof and
  • Mohd Fairuz Shahidan

Urban vacant land possesses significant yet untapped ecological potential (capacity to support biodiversity, ecological processes, and ecosystem functions) for enhancing urban sustainability and resilience. However, the absence of structured and adap...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,634 Views
15 Pages

Development of a Block-Scale Spatial Flood Vulnerability Index—Case Study: Morelia, Mexico

  • Claudia Ximena Roblero-Escobar,
  • Jaime Madrigal,
  • Sonia Tatiana Sánchez-Quispe,
  • Julio César Orantes-Avalos and
  • Liliana García-Romero

3 February 2025

The study of urban floods is increasingly crucial due to their growing frequency and impact on densely populated areas, often characterized by inadequate drainage and located in flood-prone zones. The consequences extend beyond physical damage, signi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,388 Views
24 Pages

Disaster Risk Management and Spatial Planning: Evidence from the Fire-Stricken Area of Mati, Greece

  • Miranda Dandoulaki,
  • Miltiades Lazoglou,
  • Nikos Pangas and
  • Konstantinos Serraos

19 June 2023

The debate over spatial planning highlights the need for more interdisciplinary, strategic, and collaborative methods to achieve broad policy goals such as resilience and sustainability. Risk-based planning is gaining importance due to the rising vul...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
851 Views
31 Pages

14 August 2025

Amid an increasingly complex and uncertain global landscape, geopolitical tensions and frequent trade frictions have emerged as critical external risks threatening the economic stability and sustainable development of Chinese cities. Enhancing cities...

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,934 Views
15 Pages

Building Resilience: An Art–Food Hub to Connect Local Communities

  • Giovanni Quaranta,
  • Cristina Dalia,
  • Luca Salvati and
  • Rosanna Salvia

14 December 2019

Resilience thinking is an appropriate framework when assessing the transitional potential of complex urban systems. The transformation of abandoned spaces into local hubs attracting new and innovative activities and events promotes a socioeconomic re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,602 Views
21 Pages

Sustainable City Strategies for Strategic Digital City Project in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Context

  • Denis Alcides Rezende,
  • Luis André Wernecke Fumagalli,
  • Hugh Bartling,
  • Godswill Udoh Okon and
  • Andrés Ruiz Gallego

3 June 2025

Cities demand strategic projects and sustainable indicators to improve the citizen quality of life. The research objective investigates how sustainable city strategies in Curitiba, Brazil, align with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (...

  • Article
  • Open Access
671 Views
20 Pages

22 September 2025

With the increasing importance of urban green spaces in leisure, ecology, emergency management, and other functions, urban forest parks play a key role in enhancing urban tourism resilience. Tourists are closely related to this, but current research...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,653 Views
29 Pages

18 March 2024

This paper discusses the critical importance of effective mitigation policies to enhance earthquake resilience in urban systems, especially in light of recent seismic events in Italy. The Italian Civil Protection Department (ICPD) has delineated spec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,039 Views
17 Pages

Empowering Urban Tourism Resilience Through Online Heritage Visibility: Bucharest Case Study

  • Ana-Irina Lequeux-Dincă,
  • Aurel Gheorghilaş and
  • Elena-Alina Tudor

27 February 2025

Urban tourism resilience has become an important issue in light of the recent COVID-19 crisis, and heritage tourism represents an opportunity to recover from recent losses and develop resilient, sustainable planning for this sector. Important cities...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,087 Views
22 Pages

10 May 2024

Global climate change has precipitated a surge in urban flooding challenges, prompting the imperative role of green infrastructure (GI) as the linchpin of sponge city construction to enhance urban sustainability and resilience. But the evaluation of...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,551 Views
22 Pages

Within the vast landscape of the Built Environment, where challenges of uncertainty abound, this paper ventures into a detailed exploration of antifragile planning. Antifragility, a concept rooted in the capacity of systems to not only withstand but...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
7,275 Views
21 Pages

17 September 2017

With predictions of extreme precipitation and sea-level rise under climate change that may induce morphological changes of estuaries, increased estuarine flood risk needs to be considered. The aim of this case study was to contemplate sustainability...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
173 Citations
31,575 Views
19 Pages

Green Infrastructure Planning Principles: An Integrated Literature Review

  • Renato Monteiro,
  • José C. Ferreira and
  • Paula Antunes

16 December 2020

Green infrastructure is a strategically planned network of natural and semi-natural areas, including green and blue spaces and other ecosystems, designed and managed to deliver a wide range of ecosystem services at various scales. Apart from the ecol...

  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
7,012 Views
23 Pages

28 October 2020

Green infrastructure (GI), as a concept and as a tool for environmental land-use planning at various scales, has burst onto the academic, political, and policy-making scenes in the last two decades. This tool, associated with strategic planning, offe...

  • Review
  • Open Access
38 Citations
14,565 Views
17 Pages

18 September 2024

Urban heat islands (UHIs) pose a significant challenge in cities worldwide, exacerbating energy use, air pollution, and health risks. This paper reviews the role of water bodies in mitigating UHI effects, which is vital for informed urban planning an...

  • Review
  • Open Access
235 Citations
47,582 Views
20 Pages

Key Enablers of and Barriers to the Uptake and Implementation of Nature-Based Solutions in Urban Settings: A Review

  • Shahryar Ershad Sarabi,
  • Qi Han,
  • A. Georges L. Romme,
  • Bauke de Vries and
  • Laura Wendling

Climate change and urbanization have resulted in several societal challenges for urban areas. Nature-based solutions (NBS) have been positioned as solutions for enhancing urban resilience in the face of these challenges. However, the body of conceptu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
8,836 Views
17 Pages

Enhancing Urban Resilience: Strategic Management and Action Plans for Cyclonic Events through Socially Constructed Risk Processes

  • Raúl Pérez-Arévalo,
  • Juan Jiménez-Caldera,
  • José Luis Serrano-Montes,
  • Jesús Rodrigo-Comino,
  • Kevin Therán-Nieto and
  • Andrés Caballero-Calvo

Cities will face increasing challenges due to the impacts of global climate change, particularly in the form of cyclonic events, necessitating a deeper understanding and the establishment of effective response mechanisms at both institutional and cit...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,028 Views
66 Pages

Towards Resilient Cities: Systematic Review of the Literature on the Use of AI to Optimize Water Harvesting and Mitigate Scarcity

  • Victor Martin Maldonado Benitez,
  • Oswaldo Morales Matamoros and
  • Jesús Jaime Moreno Escobar

30 June 2025

This article develops a systematic literature review with a focus on the optimization of water harvesting through the use of artificial intelligence (AI) applications. These are framed in the search for sustainable solutions to the growing problem of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,705 Views
24 Pages

Identifying Institutional Barriers and Enablers for Sustainable Urban Planning from a Municipal Perspective

  • Camilo A. Ramírez Rincón,
  • João Santos,
  • Leentje Volker and
  • Robert Rouwenhorst

12 October 2021

Steering towards a path of sustainability and resilience in urban environments depends greatly on effective institutions, governance and strategic planning. National governments are increasingly expanding municipal institutions’ mandates by delegatin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,160 Views
22 Pages

Mainstreaming Climate Change Adaptation into Sectoral Plans: An Assessment Based on the Logical Framework Approach

  • Antonio Ledda,
  • Vittorio Serra,
  • Maria Grazia Gavina Ruiu,
  • Antonietta Bardi,
  • Daniele Trogu,
  • Elisabetta Anna Di Cesare and
  • Andrea De Montis

28 April 2024

Although climate change adaptation (CCA) and spatial planning are relevant to promoting climate resilience, Italy shows a certain lack of studies focused on the coherence between national CCA objectives and sectoral plans. We aim to investigate such...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,283 Views
24 Pages

20 December 2020

The elaboration of City Development Strategies (CDS) helps cities to harness the potential of urbanization through strategic planning, and consequently to contribute to promoting development, balancing city growth, and empowering citizens. Continuous...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
5,601 Views
17 Pages

15 March 2021

Along the rapid pace of urbanization, urban agriculture is increasingly recognized as an important tool of sustainable food and nutrition supply, while contributing to the resilience and sustainability of cities from various dimensions. From a govern...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,248 Views
20 Pages

Development of a Multicriteria Scheme for the Identification of Strategic Areas for SUDS Implementation: A Case Study from Gijón, Spain

  • Antonio Menéndez Suárez-Inclán,
  • Cristina Allende-Prieto,
  • Jorge Roces-García,
  • Juan P. Rodríguez-Sánchez,
  • Luis A. Sañudo-Fontaneda,
  • Carlos Rey-Mahía and
  • Felipe P. Álvarez-Rabanal

1 March 2022

Spain has been pinpointed as one of the European countries at major risk of extreme urban events. Thus, Spanish cities pursue new urban plans to increase their resilience. In this scenario, experiences in the implementation of Sustainable Urban Drain...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,208 Views
26 Pages

28 May 2025

Establishing a resilient bird habitat network (BHN) and identifying ecological strategic areas for protection are critical for conserving biodiversity and maintaining ecosystem stability in wetland cities. However, existing ecological network studies...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,525 Views
25 Pages

26 November 2020

Today, there is an increasing need to understand how to link the management of the surface and subsurface to avoid disasters in many urban areas and/or reduce the likelihood of future risks. There is a need for thorough investigation of subsurface pr...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,894 Views
20 Pages

Performance Assessment System to Wastewater Utilities Strategic Planning

  • Maria do Céu Almeida,
  • Rita Salgado Brito,
  • Catarina Jorge and
  • Maria Adriana Cardoso

10 September 2021

Urban water utilities face growing challenges in compliance with increasingly demanding legislation, tightening budgets, ageing personnel, decreasing infrastructure reliability, increasing operational costs, regulatory pressure, and climate change. W...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,815 Views
22 Pages

14 April 2025

Australian cities face significant and growing challenges due to the combined impacts of population growth, climate change, unsustainable consumption, and digital disruption. While new services and technologies are being developed to support improved...

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